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You're probably right. If I could keep things straight with Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and even Lost, but not How I Met Your Mother, it probably is a sign I'm not a big fan of the show.

Like Friends, I'm really just coasting until the last episode, watching more out of obligation and habit than anything else.

Still, a few times, the show does remind me of it's previous greatness.

This weeks episode went a long way to reminding me of it's earlier better episodes. I'm still annoyed at the fact that they're going to ring another season out of this show. But if they do in fact reveal the mother this season and have a season of him getting to know her, wel I think that would be great and potentially redeem Season 9 in my eyes.

You're probably right. If I could keep things straight with Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and even Lost, but not How I Met Your Mother, it probably is a sign I'm not a big fan of the show.

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In defense of the show, Rachel Bilson was a pretty important part of the show's continuity. First of all, she's a reputable actress (and not one of the dismissable ex-gfs we'd seen in the past). Second of all, it was a key reveal that the yellow umbrella was hers. Third of all, it was a key reveal that unknown to Ted at that point in his life, the future Mother was the roommate, and all the things in the room were hers, and in fact we see her ankle. That single episode answered YEARS worth of questions, while still keeping the big reveal a secret.

I can totally understand forgetting some minor plot points, but as far as major plot points go, this ranks right up there with finding out who the Final Five are or what's inside the hatch.

so for like 8 years he has been telling his kids about his and friends sex life?

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They make jokes about that a lot, as in him implying that it's a very "long" story, etc. But in-universe, I think it's meant to be him sitting down with his kids one evening and telling them this story about how he met their mother.

I love their visual metaphors for naughty activity, that's one of the truly unique things about this show. They just invented a new one in the last episode, what was it again...? Oh yeah, confetti for baby shit!